Boston Educational Development Foundation, Inc.
To support incoming Boston Public Schools superintendent Dr. Tommy Chang and a transition team in a listen-and-learn tour and in creating a 100-day-plan for the start of Dr. Chang's tenure.
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $100,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Education
Communication Network
To support The Communications Network's 2015 Annual Conference.
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $5,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Memberships & Sponsorships
Grantmakers in the Arts
Barr Foundation membership
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $25,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Memberships & Sponsorships
Innovation Network for Communities
To launch and implement the Renewable Energy Leadership Prize, a $100,000 award to the nonprofit institution in Greater Boston that develops the most compelling strategy for large-scale renewable energy generation from either on-site or off-site sources.
- Award Date: 5/27/2015
- Amount: $125,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Climate
Charles River Conservancy, Inc.
To help complete The Lynch Family Skatepark.
- Award Date: 5/13/2015
- Amount: $75,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Founding Trustee-directed
Foundation Center
To redesign the Glasspockets transparency and accountability assessment and the benchmark visualization, as well as undertake communications efforts to promote transparency principles and further Glasspockets use.
- Award Date: 4/27/2015
- Amount: $100,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Sector Effectiveness
Merck Family Fund
To conduct the Economic Benefits of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative research project.
- Award Date: 4/27/2015
- Amount: $150,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Climate
Third Sector New England, Inc.
Barr Foundation membership dues for the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
- Award Date: 4/27/2015
- Amount: $5,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Memberships & Sponsorships
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
To conduct phase two of the Theory of the Foundation initiative.
- Award Date: 4/7/2015
- Amount: $30,000
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Sector Effectiveness
Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Barr Foundation member support for the Boston Social Justice Funders Network
- Award Date: 4/6/2015
- Amount: $2,500
- Term: 12 months
- Program: Memberships & Sponsorships